Lot 274: MICK JAWALJI , CIRCA 1919 MAWUNAYIN/DAWYAN DAWYAN Natural ochres on plywood

Bears artist's name, size and Warmun Art Centre catalogue number WAC 199/05 on the reverse Natural ochres on plywood

139.5 by 100 cm

Mick Jawalji: Dawyan Dawyan 'This One This One', William Mora Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 12 October - 5 November 2005, cat.1

Commissioned by Warmun Art Centre in 2005
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection

This painting is sold with an accompanying William Mora Aboriginal Art exhibition catalogue that reads in part: "this painting features the Dreamtime story of Jawurranji, the Moon and Daawul, the Black Headed Python. This story comes from the Garndiwal Station. Darreninjiwa is the Gija name of Godford Gorge on the Leopold River. This is where the Moon called out to the promised wives. Mawunay(in) is the big waterhole at the bottom of the gorge, where all the promised wives were gathered. Dawyan Dawyan is what the Moon said when the people asked him which woman he wanted as a wife. It means roughly 'this one, this one' and is not proper Gija."